Yellow Caturra Maui From The Coffee Adventures Review
The Drink: Yellow Caturra Maui From The Coffee Adventures
Type: Single Origin Whole Bean
Overall Rating: 3.5 Out Of 5 Coffee Mugs
This morning’s coffee comes from Jamie, the blogger behind The Coffee Adventures, staff reviewer for Daily Shot Of Coffee and avid home roaster. She shared with me some of her Yellow Caturra Maui.
Kona may get all of the attention, but there are other types of coffees grown in Hawaii and Yellow Caturra Maui is one of them.
This Yellow Caturra Maui caught my attention with an interesting aroma. It had a nutty flavor, with a blend of wine meets floral to balance it out.
The coffee looks like a golden brown medium roast, but the first sip caught me off guard. It had a darker roast flavor, but that was followed by a lighter, almost wine-like flavor. It had an overall sweetness like honey and hints of oranges. The wine like flavor dominated the after taste.
Brewed in a french press, this coffee had a medium body.
Jamie also gets bonus points for putting a roast on date right on the bag. I’m not so sure why it’s so hard for other roasters to do the same.
Overall, this coffee earned an above average rating of 3.5 on the Daily Shot Of Coffee. Jamie produced a coffee that was loaded with flavor, complete with all sorts of twists and turns. I’d have no problem recommending it to friends, especially those who like a flavorful medium roast.
Jamie isn’t selling her coffee yet, but keep an eye on The Coffee Adventures, that’s where you can find out when she does start selling her coffee.
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Category: Coffee Reviews
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Mike Crimmins is the highly caffeinated blogger behind Daily Shot Of Coffee. Besides drinking way too much coffee, he's obsessed with the Yankees and getting dirty on his mountain bike.Subscribe
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Any coffee with a simple presentation, and the description including the roast date would peak my interest. No fancy marketing, no PR campaign, just a bean to be judged. Nice!
I agree, and I think it’s a lesson that some major coffee companies could use. Stop focusing so much on the presentation, focus on the quality of the coffee.
yeahhhh quality. who’d have thought we worried over this minor aspect.
anyway, Mike, you got to expand the ‘…wine like flavor …’ aspect.
just what type of wine are you talking about here?
there are a few….
Jamie! props to you! this one sounds like a winer.
i guess you KNOW this Mike, but i’ve found that most mildly roasted coffee has a more complex fruity honey other light flavor taste than the deep City roast. maybe Jamies light roasting put a charred patina on the seed coats and still allowed the more elusive flavors to come through when it was brewed.
[quote]‘… The coffee looks like a golden brown medium roast, but the first sip caught me off guard. It had a darker roast flavor, but that was followed by a lighter, almost wine-like flavor. …’[/quote]
or maybe Jamies just the total magician she says she is.
You never know Howard…I just may be a total magician. haha
The coffee does look very light, but I have tried a little darker and it just does not do the coffee justice. I feel like It’s a very sensitive coffee, and not just because it’s from Hawaii.